There are colors that matter.
For instance:
The range of sapphire in this shallow sea,
The roiling grey of the sky,
The simple uncolored assertion of horizon,
The tans and pinks of flashing shells.
So many, that under other circumstances,
Enough to purchase a continent,
Or, worn artfully in young braids,
Enough to break the heart of a king.
There are so many and each one
Reaches back through its silent testimony.
A garland of sea grass twists around my ankle
And I add green and amber to the list.

A man and wife from Sierra Leone
Converse with a pair of local drunks
Whose threat waits behind the cages of their smiles.
“At least your skin doesn’t burn,” one says,
Touching the man’s ebony arm.
And the man from Africa smiles back,
Although the wife refuses her eyes.
“See you upstairs,” the other says,
Waving his pale finger at the sky.

· Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition,
7/99 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm>
Teaching Freshman Composition sections face-to-face and
online. Co-Coordinator of the Freshman English Program.
Member of the Honors Program faculty (three-year
appointment from 2002-2005).

· HUD-EDI Special Projects Grant Co-Recipient,
with Dr. Wendell Jackson, 11/98 to 9/99 (period of
grant). Funds in excess of $79,000 earmarked to improve
the English Resource Writing Center at Morgan State
University: designing lab, training tutors,
instructional technologist, and curriculum design.
Internal Morgan State University grant of $50,000 was
also implemented for equipment.

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